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GET
/
agents
/
documents
/
{document_id}
Get Document
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.cartesia.ai/agents/documents/{document_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Cartesia-Version: <cartesia-version>'
import requests

url = "https://api.cartesia.ai/agents/documents/{document_id}"

headers = {
"Cartesia-Version": "<cartesia-version>",
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'GET',
headers: {'Cartesia-Version': '<cartesia-version>', Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}
};

fetch('https://api.cartesia.ai/agents/documents/{document_id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.cartesia.ai/agents/documents/{document_id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Cartesia-Version: <cartesia-version>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.cartesia.ai/agents/documents/{document_id}"

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("Cartesia-Version", "<cartesia-version>")
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.cartesia.ai/agents/documents/{document_id}")
.header("Cartesia-Version", "<cartesia-version>")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.cartesia.ai/agents/documents/{document_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Cartesia-Version"] = '<cartesia-version>'
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "id": "<string>",
  "name": "<string>",
  "content": "<string>",
  "created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "metadata": {}
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Cartesia API key (sk_car_...). Get one at play.cartesia.ai/keys.

Headers

Cartesia-Version
enum<string>
default:2026-03-01
required

API version header.

Available options:
2026-03-01
Example:

"2026-03-01"

Path Parameters

document_id
string
required

The ID of the document.

Response

id
string
required

The ID of the document.

name
string | null
required

The document's display name, or null if unnamed.

content
string
required

The full document text.

created_at
string<date-time>
required

When the document was uploaded.

metadata
object
required

User-defined string-keyed metadata.